(VBScript) Decode utf-8 Hex to a String

Converts a hex-encoded utf-8 bytes to a string.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)



' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sb = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

' Append the hex.  The hex can be uppercase hex or lowercase hex, it doesn't matter.
success = sb.Append("D79ED795D7A6D7A8")

' Notice the above string contains Hebrew chars using the utf-8 byte representation.
' See https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables/BasicHebrew.html
' For example:  D79E is the HEBREW LETTER MEM

' Therefore, when we decode to binary bytes, we must interpret the bytes as utf-8
' to get characters.

' Tell Chilkat to URL decode like this:
success = sb.Decode("hex","utf-8")

' sb now contains the decoded string.
outFile.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString())

outFile.Close